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	DragonBear History: All That:
		The Nine Worthies was a theme that admitted of variations.
		The main application the Nine Worthies have for us in the SCA is obviously as a window into the medieval view of chivalry.
		And to speak more specifically of the Nine Worthies in the Current Middle Ages: there was a pageant at the Twenty Year Celebration in Ansteorra, where nine peers from across the Known World portrayed the Worthies, each speaking a brief piece on the chivalrous virtues.
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	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Nine.
		Nine, five, and three are mystical numbers—the diapa’son, diapente, and diatri’on of the Greeks.
		If a servant finds nine green peas in a peascod, she lays it on the lintel of the kitchen door, and the first man that enters in is to be her cavalier.
		The nine are: (1) Mercury, (2) Venus, (3) Earth, (4) Mars, (5) the Planetoids, (6) Jupiter, (7) Saturn, (8) Ur nus, (9) Neptune.
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	Nine Worthies - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Nine Worthies were nine historical figures meant to be the embodiment of the ideal of chivalry.
		The Nine Worthies were a popular subject for masques in Renaissance Europe.
		The Nine Worthies had not devolved to folk culture even in the 17th century, for a frieze of the Nine Worthies, contemporary with Shakespeare's comedy, was painted at the outset of the 17th century at North Mymms Place, Hertfordshire, an up-to-date house built by the Coningsby family, 1599 [1].
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	The Nine Worthies
		The result of this was that the Worthies were viewed as being of the same cultural and psychological background as their admirers.
		The heroic nature of the Worthies was felt in a deeply personal and immediate sense; they might have been princes at some distant court whose deeds caused their fame to spread throughout Europe.
		One of the places in which the Worthies appear is an anonymous English poem known as The Parlement of the Thre Ages, probably written in the late 1300's for which there is a manuscript dating from the mid-15th century.
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	Dressed to the nines
		The phrases 'to the nines', or 'to the nine', were used to indicate perfection - the highest standards.
		Whether the 'to the nine' is a literal translation from the original or whether it was added by translators later, and possibly as late as 1900, isn't clear.
		It is at least plausible that the to the nines phrase was matched with the 99 of the regiment's name to and reputation to coin dressed to the nines.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/dressed-to-the-nines.html (624 words)

	Nine Worthies — Infoplease.com
		Nine worthies were they called, of different rites- Three Jews, three pagans, and three Christian knights.
		Nine Worthies - Nine Worthies Joshua, David, and Judas and Maccabaeus;; Hector, Alexander, and Julius and...
		Nine - Nine Nine, five, and three are mystical numbers- the diapason, diapente, and diatrion of the...
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	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Nine Worthies.
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Nine Worthies.
		“Nine worthies were they called, of different rites—
		Nine worthies (privy councillors to William III.):—
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	Chapter Nina-Thoma <i>to</i> No One of N by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Nine Gods (The) of the Etruscans: Juno, Minerva, and Tinia (the three chief).
		Nine Orders of Angles (The): (1) Seraphim, (2) Cherubim (in the first circle); (3) Thrones, (4) Dominions (in the second circle); (5) Virtues, (6) Powers, (7) Principalities, (8) Archangels, (9) Angels (in the third circle).
		Nine Worthies of London (The): sir William Walworth, sir Henry Pritchard, sir William Sevenoke, sir Thomas White, sir John Bonham, Christopher Croker, sir John Hawkwood, sir Hugh Caverley, and sir Henry Maleverer.
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	Camilian: Nine - 9 - IX
		Worthies of Chivalry - (Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabaeus, Hector, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon)
		Worthies of London - (Devonshire, Dorset, Mon-mouth, Edward Russell, Caermarthen, Pembroke, Nottingham, Marlborough, and Lowther)
		The Nine Worthies of Chivalry were composed of historical figures know for prowess and chivalry.
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	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		The subject of literary, artistic and dramatic representation from the later medieval period onwards, the so-called `Nine Worthies' is a group representing the best knights of all time, made up of three figures each from the periods of pagan, Old Testament and Christian history.
		The `Nine Worthies' theme promotes the notion of chivalry as a transhistorical phenomenon and is part of the developing mythology of knighthood, in evidence throughout the medieval period (and after).
		The list of Nine Worthies is first recorded in an Old French Alexander narrative of the early 14th century, and a dramatized pageant of the `Nine Worthies' is included in Shakespeare's Love's%20Labour's%20Lost">Love's Labour's Lost.
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	The Nine Worthies
		Sources: Hans Burgkmayr (1473-1531), a prominent engraver from Augsburg, who made a suite of Nine Worthies engravings in 1516 (HB).
		frescoes depicting the worthies (both male and female) with their arms, as in the illuminations of his father's manuscript.
		These statues of the female worthies with their coats of arms are in the castle of Pierrefonds, near Paris; they date from the mid-19th century.
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		Nine Worthies: The Nine Worthies were a triple trilogy of heroes; Old Testament Classical, and Medieval.
		The worthies were the cause of influence for many different types of literature, such as poetry, and romances.
		Some time later a collection of Englishman, Councilors to William III, were also given the title of "The Nine Worthies of London." They included Devonshire, Mon-mouth, Edward Russell, and Dorset who were all part of the Whigs party.
	faculty.smu.edu /bwheeler/Ency/nine.html (290 words)

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		This is followed with an index which begins with the Nine Worthies, the kings of various real and fanciful kingdoms, the great nobles and ecclesiastics of Europe, and finally the arms of the Portuguese nobility.
		2 and 3 Argent, a lion rampant purpure.) 2 and 3 (Paly of nine Or and gules.
		Azure, an orle and saltire of rope proper between in cross four eschutcheons of (Azure, nine plates three, three, and three.) debruised by a rope fesswise proper overall in fess point an escutcheon of (Azure, nine plates three, three, and three.) surmounted by a rope proper palewise, all the ropes conjoined.
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	SS4.4 - Chapel Hill History of Philosophy
		It is worth looking closer at those nine worthies because doing so helps one to maintain a sense of the distance between Kantian ethics and virtue-ethics.
		What I have in mind is the way the grouping of the nine was explained as three who were paradigms of the Pagan law, three who were paradigms of the Jewish law, and three who were paradigms of the Christian law.
		The Nine Worthies were moral paradigms for a medieval culture in which the great heroes were warriors whose behavior exemplified the code of the warrior.
	www.cs.utk.edu /CHHoPwiki/index.php/SS4.4 (1593 words)

	Nines quiz -- free game
		Below are some significant sets of nine in history, myth, literature and science.
		During the late medieval period a set of 'Nine Worthies' was assembled, heroes of myth, scripture and legend who served as paragons of virtue.
		The Nine Muses of Greek myth are also called by a number of other epithets.
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	December 13th
		This chronicle of the deeds of city-heroes is a curious compound of prose and verse.
		The Worthies are made to tell their own stories in rhyme, to a prose accompaniment unique in its way.
		The last of the Nine Worthies was Sir Henry Maleverer, grocer, commonly called Henry of Cornhill, who lived in the days of Henry IV.
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	North Mymms Park - A short history - Chapter 3 - Wall Paintings
		One of the Nine Worthies - Godfrey of Bouillon - was about to emerge from his hiding place for the first time for many years.
		The idea of the Nine Worthies is almost as old as time - a band of men, often widely different in outlook and belief, but heroes all.
		Born about 1060 in Lower Lorraine, the son of aristocratic parents, he was impelled by a strong religious urge, a craving for adventure and his failure to adapt to the life of an administrator of family estates to join the first crusade in 1096.
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	Arthurian Annals
		The Nine Worthies passage reprinted by I. Gollancz in his edition of The Parlement of the Thre Ages (1879 and 1915).
		The Nine Worthies of London: Explaining the Honourable Exercise of Armes, the Vertues of the Valiant, and the Memorable Attempts of Magnanimous Minds.
		Although clearly inspired by the Nine Worthies vogue, this work is not Arthurian: citizens of London are each praised in a poem and short prose reflection.
	www.unr.edu /cla/ch/boardman/annals/late16th.htm (4584 words)

	The Valiant Expedition of Captain Shri by Thomas Morton
		Now the nine worthies are approached; and mine host prepared, having intelligence by a savage, that hastened in love from Wessaguscus, to give him notice of their intent.
		The nine worthies coming before the den of this supposed monster, (this seven-headed hydra, as they termed him) and began, like Don Quixote against the windmill, to beat a parley, and to offer quarter if mine host would yield, for they resolved to send him for England, and bade him lay by his arms.
		Captain Shrimp and the rest of the nine worthies made themselves by this outrageous riot masters of mine host of Ma-re Mount, and disposed of what he had at his plantation.
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	ARTHOUR
		In the preface to his edition Caxton points out that Arthur is one of the Nine Worthies, an appellation that appears in the Parlement of the Thre Ages, 462-512.
		A medieval tapestry hanging in The Cloisters collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York portrays Arthur as one of the Nine Worthies, his standard showing the three crowns of England, Scotland, and Brittany.
		, "Verses on the Nine Worthies." MP 15 (1917): 19-27; Parlement of the Thre Ages, ed.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/A/arthour.htm (765 words)

	Arthurian Legends: Final Hypermedia Project by Ben Sandler - Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arthur had to be a leader worthy of being remembered for thousands of years.
		And, of course, he had to have his flaws, which would not take away from his greatness or his status as one of the nine worthies, but rather serve to enrich his character.
		David, as one of the Nine Worthies, was very important to people in the Middle Ages because he was seen as a flawed mo rtal who nonetheless ascended to the ranks of the Worthies.
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	DAVID: The Paper
		Arthur had to be a leader worthy of being remembered for thousands of years.
		And, of course, he had to have his flaws, which would not take away from his greatness or his status as one of the nine worthies, but rather serve to enrich his character.
		Perhaps this is another reason why David was listed among the nine worthies; because of his divine selection.
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	Wall Paintings - Harvington Hall, Kidderminster
		The most important of them are the arabesque drawings in the Mermaid Passage and on the back staircase and the figures of the Nine Worthies on the second floor.
		The Small Chapel is decorated with red and white drops for the blood and water of the Passion and there are also traces of medieval work.
		The Nine Worthies Passage - David slaying Goliath, from a drawing by Elsie Matley Moore now held in the City of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Topic 2: Texts and Contexts
		The Nine Worthies are a set of champions, first devised in the thirteenth century, who became a subject for poetry and art.
		The Worthies constituted a kind of chivalric Hall of Fame to inspire nationalism.
		The following translation of a balade, composed in 1386 by the prolific French writer Eustaches Deschamps, a contemporary of Chaucer, is an example of the moralizing use made of the Worthies to contrast the degenerate present with an ideal past.
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	§28. "Wynnere and Wastoure; The Parlement of the Thre Ages". I. “Piers the Plowman” and its Sequence. ...
		Then, falling asleep, he sees in a vision three men, Youth, Middle-Age and Age, clad, respectively, in green, grey and fl, who dispute concerning the advantages and disadvantages of the ages they represent.
		Age relates the histories of the Nine Worthies, and declares that all is vanity.
		He hears the bugle of Death summoning him, and the author wakes.
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		The Worthies were: SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 8 \h From pagan times: Hector, son of Priam of Troy; Julius Caesar; and Alexander the Great.
		Also, of the total 302 lines in the poem that address the subject of the Worthies, only 32 of them discuss the doings of the Jewish heros.
		To some extent, this may be attributed to ignorance of the actual bible stories; few vernacular translations were available at the time.
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	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Topic 2: Overview
		The tapestry comes from a set of the "Nine Worthies," who were regarded in the late Middle Ages as the greatest military leaders of all times.
		In the chronicle histories, as a Christian king, Arthur had borne the cross and fought valiantly against barbarian enemies and an evil giant.
		While for the aristocracy Arthur's reign continued to provide an ancient model of courtesy, justice, and prowess, as it does in Deschamps's ballade on the Nine Worthies, moralists and satirists pointed out, with varying degrees of subtlety, how far Arthur and his knights fall short of the highest spiritual ideals.
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	Guy of Warwick
		The image above on the left shows Guy as one of the Nine Worthies, from Richard Lloyd's 1584 A brief discourse of the most renowned actes and right valiant conquests of those puisant princes, called the nine worthies (Early English Books, 1475 - 1640 / 475:07).
		The Nine Worthies were traditionally three trios of heroes, pagan, biblical, and Christian.
		The usual line-up was Hector, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar; Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabeus; and Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon (a figure from the First Crusade).
	faculty.arts.ubc.ca /sechard/GUY.HTM (868 words)

	Custom term paper on Art / Carolingian Art - Custom Term Papers
		In crowning him with this title in the year 800, the Pope had offered him the 'adoration' due to an emperor, and before he died, Charles's claim to the imperial title was recognized by the Emperor of the East.
		Charlemagne, new representative of the old Rome as his title showed, was to win his place among the nine worthies of Christendom, worthies whose qualification is military success, like that of Joshua or Alexander or Caesar, or chivalrous bravery, like that of Hector.
		But it was not only as a great conqueror that he impressed his contemporaries: rather because his work meant the restoration of order in the political chaos of the times.
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